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Spotify is not available in Germany. Neither is Pandora.
by kleiba 16y ago
Spotify is not available in Germany. Neither is Pandora.
- to 16y agonor is netflix, gamefly, grooveshark (or is it by now?) and uncensored video games. i think a service like netflix is about time to hit europe and esp. germany with all the traffic you want on 50mbit lines in every house and over 85% online connectivity over all 10-18 year olds. anyway. im not sure if that article isnt just made up by someone to support spotify. people here in america dont even know what grooveshark, last.fm or pandora is but people know about spotify in the countries where its available to an extend that its the second largest source of income of _european_ labels. most big labels are US anyway... either they are US or they have their HQ in the states. besides the fact that 2.2 million euro in income is pretty much nothing. at the end with sweden and finland combined we're talking about around 15m people - you just cant move much with it. i call BS on that one and vote for an edit of the title to: "Spotify Could Be Second Largest Source Of Revenue For Labels In Europe"
- mzl 16y agoThat is most likely due to GEMA (the german collection agency) having very high fees for internet streaming. Same problem in Denmark with their collection agency.
- DrJokepu 16y agoExactly. GEMA charges a minimum of €0.1916 ($0.2626) for each streaming of a song up to five minutes. Compare that to the £0.0022 ($0.0035) charged by PRS for Music, the equivalent performing rights collection society in the United Kingdom.